. Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland . reported to the law officers of the Crown in sensation, in consequence of this last event, increasedgreatly. Every artifice was made, not only to destroythe evidence we had collected, but to muzzle ourlips, and knock the very legs from under us. Mr Lauderwas tempted with offers to emigrate to America ; some ofthe illiterate labourers who mixed the meal were hiedaway from Glasgow; but what was worse than all this,the Highland Belief Committee, per their Select FinanceCommittee, in the face of all that had taken place, paiddown
. Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland . reported to the law officers of the Crown in sensation, in consequence of this last event, increasedgreatly. Every artifice was made, not only to destroythe evidence we had collected, but to muzzle ourlips, and knock the very legs from under us. Mr Lauderwas tempted with offers to emigrate to America ; some ofthe illiterate labourers who mixed the meal were hiedaway from Glasgow; but what was worse than all this,the Highland Belief Committee, per their Select FinanceCommittee, in the face of all that had taken place, paiddown to Mr Bannatyne the full value of his meal, with atrifling deduction, thereby enabling him to say to theCrown lawyers, now looking at the case, that his conduct,after all was pure and immaculate in their eyes, and thathe was sought to be the victim by his rivals in trade,hounded on by a reckless press! From first to last, it was no other than a case of cooland deliberate fraud, ending eventually in a way whichmay astonish our readers as we
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